Christian Prokopp, PhD, is a Principal Consultant at <a target='_blank' href='http://www.bigdatapartnership.com/'>Big Data Partnership</a> in London developing big data strategies, architectures and products for clients. Previously, Christian worked as a big data architect and senior data scientist at Rangespan, a wholesales E-commerce analytics platform, where he built a large scale cloud based data mining infrastructure and processes until a successful exit (Google acquired the company). He loves traveling and spent the last one and a half decades finding excuses to live, research and work on three continents hoping to make it six eventually. His professional interest has always been information technology and how to push its boundaries to achieve better business outcomes. He therefore can be found discussing big data strategies with CxOs as likely as diving into technical conversations with engineers and data scientists. Christian tweets as <a target='_blank' href='https://twitter.com/prokopp'>@prokopp</a> and spends his spare time as a <a target='_blank' href='http://semantikoz.com/blog'>blogger</a>, (ghost) writer and speaker.
